Wednesday
Oct202010
NJ Taxpayers Get Screwed: Turnpike Employee With A Salary of $73k, Earns $322k After Gaming The System
Video: Public employees gaming the system -- Taxpayer rip-off
MYFOXNY.COM - Auditors say the New Jersey Turnpike Authority wasted $43 million on unneeded perks and bonuses. In one case, an employee with a base salary of $73,469 earned $321,985 when all payouts and bonuses were included.
The audit says that toll dollars From the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway were spent on items ranging from an employee bowling league to employee bonuses for working on birthdays and holidays.
It took place as tolls were being increased.
The biggest expense uncovered in the audit was $30 million in unjustified bonuses to employees and management in 2008 and 2009 without consideration of performance.
Oct 20, 2010 at 4:29 PM
Reader Comments (2)
Hmmmm, what can you say about Jersey. I used to do the drive from Philly to Rutgers and if you missed your turnpike exit, you’re fucked. I am talking an hour or more to get back on track. The parties at Rutgers were top notch and the chicks all looked like versions of Monica Crowley (for good reason).
Jersey is where most of the NYC bankers live. Jersey is where most of the NYC lawyers live. 78 takes all those pricks right into the devil’s lair. I went to school in Jersey for a while with a bunch of barzottos and schmeckles. You couldn’t spit without hitting A.J. Soprano or Johnny Leibowitz. You want to throw some trash away, tip the guy a fifty at the dump. You want to go to UPenn, mazel tov.
Corruption in Jersey, they might not have invented it but they make it into an art form.